The Truth About What Determines Crypto Prices (10 Factors)

Crypto prices are affected by almost an infinite amount of factors interacting with each other simultaneously. Let’s dive into these factors.

Bitcoin vs Ethereum: Comparing the Two Blockchain Giants

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two biggest blockchains by market cap. Learn their similarities and differences here.

What is Blockchain Technology, and Why Does it Matter?

Whether you invest or not, the blockchain and crypto space has become too big to ignore. And for someone who never bought a Bitcoin, it can feel overwhelming. One of the reasons is that you can’t explain crypto without explaining blockchain technology. It’s omnipresent. This term appears on whitepapers, the news, videos, and social media. […]

Crypto Liquidity: Everything You Need To Know

Crypto liquidity refers to the ease at which a buyer can find a seller and vice versa on both centralized and centralized exchanges.

Crypto On-Ramps and Off-Ramps: The Bottleneck for DeFi Economic Energy

Crypto on-ramps and off-ramps are the only way to get economic energy on and off blockchains.

How To Stop Missing Out on Crypto Airdrops

Crypto airdrops are a marketing strategy like giveaways that help the adoption of tokens and NFTs. Social media users get free assets for joining a list, holding tokens, or completing tasks, depending on the airdrop type. They often have user and time limits. Crypto Airdrops Explained Launching a crypto project isn’t easy. Anyone can list […]

Consensus Mechanisms: The Short and Sweet Guide

What is it like to lose your entire portfolio on a security mistake you could prevent in two minutes? Crypto wallet security is underrated until it’s not. There are many ways to lose money other than trading, and cyber-attackers don’t precisely care about the size of your account. But there can only be one chain. […]

What is a Crypto Wallet, and How To Use Them

A crypto wallet, or blockchain wallet, is a device which stores your public and private keys to authorize blockchain transactions.

Smart Contracts and dApps: Comprehensive Overview of the Landscape

Smart contracts and dApps remove the need for intervention or trust in finance and all its extensions. As Web 3.0. becomes more and more decentralized, dApp use cases and relevance will increase. The Merge of Ethereum, interoperable platforms, and other blockchain innovations revolve around smart contracts. What is a Smart Contract? With great financial decisions […]

Most Convincing DeFi NFT Use Cases: Here to Stay?

If you paid attention to the last bull market, at some point you came across Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Are they just serial numbers loosely related to jpegs, or are there actually real-world NFT Use cases? From pictures of cats and dogs to digital real estate, this post will explore everything you need to know about […]

Are Crypto Domains a Good Investment?

You can list crypto domains as NFTs, sell them as tokenized assets, rent them to others, or use them to build your website.

How To Avoid Painfully Slow Crypto Transaction Speeds

To avoid slow crypto transaction speeds, you need to increase your network priority with Speed-Up fees. Ideally, the transaction occurs in a fast blockchain with low network congestion and price volatility. When every minute matters, buying crypto directly is faster than transferring among wallets. Why are Crypto Transaction Speeds Important? While it’s worldwide available and […]

Crypto Wallet Security: Best Ways to Protect Your Digital Assets

What is it like to lose your entire portfolio on a security mistake you could prevent in two minutes? Crypto wallet security is underrated until it’s not. There are many ways to lose money other than trading, and cyber-attackers don’t precisely care about the size of your account. We often associate cyber-threats with crypto security. […]

11 Most Common Types of Crypto Scams: Staying Safe as a New Investor

Out of all use cases, yield farming is the most popular DeFi application. There are over 2,000 dApps in this space today, most of which support some sort of interest-earning feature. Why sell your crypto when you can earn while holding? Top Types Of Crypto Scams And How To Avoid New economy, new risks. Ever […]

Understanding Multi-Signature Wallets: A Comprehensive Guide

A Multisig Wallet is a crypto wallet which requires two or more private keys or seed phrases to sign transactions or send digital assets.

What are the Blockchain Layers? L0, L1, L2, L3

Blockchains layers are the different levels of interaction and infrastructure provided among blockchain projects. Depending on the layer, the project may provide blockchain technology, a blockchain network, a blockchain upgrade, or blockchain applications. The difference between these seemingly identical terms is Layer 0 vs Layer 1 vs Layer 2 vs Layer 3. What are the […]

Can Proof-of-Stake Lead to Centralization Problems?

Proof-of-stake leads to centralization when it favors token quantity. It’s not necessarily a problem as big holders don’t want to lose money on bad decisions. But it creates fewer opportunities for new validators and higher security risks. Can Proof-Of-Stake Lead To Centralization? Decentralization is the essence of blockchain. Yet, one of the most centralized consensus models seems to […]

What is Proof-of-Stake, and How Does it Work?

What Is Proof-of-Stake in Crypto? Proof-of-stake consensus mechanisms have become essential in the DeFi space. Investors can now earn from their favorite coins, potentially never having to sell to make great ROI. Compared to traditional finance, it might sound too good to be true. It might seem unsustainable, centralized, and inflationary. Yet, PoS seem to […]

Fundamentals of Crypto Staking

We compiled a list of all the basics fundamentals to know about crypto staking. Find out more by reading here.

The 5 Key Principles for Crypto Investing

Time has proven that crypto investing is the real deal. But due to it’s volatility, you need to have strong princples for crypto investing. Blockchain tech has gone a long way since Bitcoin and Ethereum. Almost every day, there are brilliant projects that come up to solve real-world problems. That also means they’re harder to […]

What is Market Cap and Why is it a Vanity Metric?

A market cap is a large number that shows how many tokens are in circulation and their total market price. While it shows how many coins are tradeable, it doesn’t show the real market demand. For example, it doesn’t include the number of tokens locked in DeFi protocols unlike the Total Value Locked (TVL). How […]

Yield Farming Basics: Everything You Need To Know

Yield farming is the process of earning returns on your cryptocurrency using various DeFi protocols including staking, lending, and liquidity providing.

Complete Guide to Ethereum: The Best Blockchain?

Ethereum is the first open-source, public blockchain with smart contract functionality. The developer community uses ETH to build its own blockchains and apps. Ethereum is part of practically every innovation in blockchain. What Is Ethereum? If Bitcoin is digital gold, Ethereum could be compared to digital silver. Both coins dominate nearly 50% of the entire […]

Crypto Arbitrage: Strong Stablecoin Pegs, and Trading Gains

It has never been so easy to trade cryptocurrency. There are hundreds of crypto exchanges, DEXs, and DeFi dApps available. Every platform has different liquidity, trading volume, and centralization. Despite these differences, cryptocurrencies have about the same prices wherever you trade. How is that possible? Crypto arbitrage is the answer. Crypto arbitrage traders help balance […]

Dumb Money vs Smart Money: Using Debt to Get Richer

If you are somebody who cares about money (everybody does, even if they say they do not), then you must understand the difference between dumb money vs smart money. One of the cornerstone difference lies in understanding what debt is and how to use it properly to enhance your finances. On the one hand, debt […]

UniSwap v3: The Complete Guide

Uniswap v3 ranks among the top decentralized exchange (DEX) platforms— if not the best— on Ethereum. In just four years, it has achieved a trading volume above one trillion, $5B to $10B of total-value-locked (TVL), and 100K+ monthly users. All while offering the lowest possible fees for ERC-20 tokens. This protocol is no longer a […]

Automated Market Maker: Key to Decentralized Exchanges?

An Automated Market Maker (AMM) is a tool used on decentralized exchanges to allow for the automatic trading of digital assets. This is done by the use of liquidity pools rather than conventional buyer and seller markets. In our recent article on liquidity pools, we likened automated market makers to robotic lifeguards overlooking concrete swimming […]

What is Liquid Loans? The Premier PulseChain Lending Protocol

How often do you visit your local bank branch these days? Probably not very often. And when you do go there, what are you going for? The reality is that we hardly ever need to go to the bank anymore because we can take care of almost all our financial tasks online. We can pay […]

Why are Ethereum Gas Fees So High? (Minimize Costs 2024)

Transacting on the Ethereum blockchain requires users to pay transaction fees known as ‘Gas fees’. Gas fees are paid in Ethereum’s native currency (ETH) and are denoted in GWEI which equals 0.000000001 ETH (10^-9). In traditional finance or ‘TradFi’, we often pay fees to transfer funds overseas or when we withdraw cash from an ATM. […]

What is Decentralized Finance (First Principles of DeFi)

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an emerging digital alternative traditional financial systems. Learn the important features of DeFi here.

The Best Way to Use Crypto to Buy a House

For many people, it’s a dream come true. You get in early on a promising crypto project, HODL till the price goes to the moon, then cash out and buy a house. Of course, it’s not always that easy, yet there are plenty of people who have pulled it off. But what about actually buying […]

Why Liquid Loans is ‘True DeFi’

‘DeFi’ stands for Decentralized Finance – and when people first learn about DeFi they often think that, because blockchains are decentralized, then all the cryptocurrencies on the blockchain must be decentralized too. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that a huge number of the cryptos in DeFi are massively centralized, and […]

What are Admin Keys? (Ultimate DeFi Risk)

For a project to be truly decentralized, it CANNOT have admin keys. Learn more about why we are so passionate about admin key-free protocols.

How To Avoid PLS Liquidations

To the uninitiated, the term ‘liquidation’ can sound pretty scary – “Oh no, I’m going to lose all my PLS!” – but to those who really understand the Liquid Loans protocol, PLS liquidations can be a good thing. Like so many things in life, it all depends what you’re trying to achieve. The TLDR is, […]

How To Generate Healthy Crypto Passive Income (2024)

There are hundreds of strategies for generating passive income in crypto, but the vast majority include taking on high amounts of counterparty risk. Even if you haven’t been in crypto very long, you’ve probably come across the phrase ‘Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins’. It comes from the fact that, if your crypto is held […]

How is 0% Percent Interest Possible? (Crypto Loan 2024)

You know the TV ads you see all the time offering “24 months interest free” on whitegoods and furniture? Those offers are actually sneakier than you may realize, for two reasons. Firstly, the retailers who offer these services usually don’t tell you that you’re actually taking out a credit card, typically with a very high […]

What Are Stablecoins in Cryptocurrency?

A Stablecoin is a cryptocurrency whose value is tied to a reserve asset, such as the US dollar, gold, various commodities, or even other cryptocurrencies. Stablecoins add price stability to an often volatile and fluctuating Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Cryptocurrency is famously volatile. Take Bitcoin, for example. In its mind-blowing journey to 6,000,000% gains – […]

Why You NEVER Have to Sell Your Crypto

Liquid Loans’ Head of Media Matt Cho recently sat down with Jesse The Pit Boss to discuss how the Liquid Loans protocol can help Pulse holders to never have to sell their most appreciating asset. Check it out! Transcript Matt: What’s going on, guys?  It’s your boy, Miyamoto. Hello to everyone watching live on YouTube.  […]

The Blockchain Trilemma: Scalability, Decentralization, and Security

The Blockchain Trilemma, coined by Vitalik Buterin, refers to the challenges in creating a network which has scalability, decentralization, and security.